We took a bit of a drive yesterday with the BF’s parents. Had lunch at our favorite restaurant (Krista’s in Cornish), stopped at the quilt shop next door (mostly for the MIL, but I bought a few fat quarters), stopped at our favorite apple orchard (Apple Acres farm in Hiram) for honey crisps and […]
I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned
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So I pulled the tomatoes out last Saturday. One of them was mostly dead, and there was a frost coming. I’d like to take note of the lush shiso and nasturtiums above. They’re gone now. That frost was definitely a game changer.
First point – this garden is in San Diego County, not San Diego itself. Little bit up the coast actually. In case you were planning a quick jaunt across town from your hotel room… Second, this is where our membership at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden really pays off. We get
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The San Diego Zoo really is amazing. I’d always known it was one of the best zoos in the country, and it lived up to the hype. (Really, the only thing I was a little meh about was the gondolas – the Sky Train, or something like that, for a proper name
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I read the precursor to this book – A Thousand Days in Venice – quite a while ago. In that book, the author had thrown her life in the US over to go to Italy and marry a man she didn’t know very well. The first book is the story of her learning
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